A Quarterly Journal of Culture and Politics
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Volume 3 — Number 2
Winter 2023
In this issue of Liberties: Michael Ignatieff – The Mind’s Emancipation; Mary Gaitskill – The Trials of the Young; Sergei Lebedev – Putin’s Philosopher: A Memoir; Michael Walzer – Moral Concern; Justin E. H. Smith – The Happiness Industrial Complex; Andrew Scull – The Fashions in Trauma; David A. Bell – The Triumph of Anti-Politics in America; Michael Kimmage – A Defense of Delight in a Dark Time; Robert Alter – Proust and the Mystification of the Jews; Steven B. Smith – What is a Statesman?; Benjamin Moser – Rembrandt’s shadows; Helen Vendler – The Poetry of Charm; Celeste Marcus – Priorism, or the Joshua Katz Affair; Leon Wieseltier – Problems and Struggles; and, new poems by Karen Solie, Adam Zagajewski, and John Hodgen.
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Autumn 2020
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